St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-25
FIERCE STRIFE AHEAD.
War Declared Between the
National League and Brit
8 ish Government.
Editor O'Brien Convicted on
Two Charges and Sem
fenced to Jail.
Lord Harrington Placed in
a Peculiar Dilemma
About Politics.
Ayoub Kahn Still a Free Man
Total
Ayoub Kahn Still a Free Man
General Foreign Intel
ligenee.
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clared between the National league and
the government, and bitter strife will
continue until one is proclaimed victor.
Both combatants proceed in their re-
spective courses, and neither shows any
signs of weakening. Indeed the battle
is but begun. Mr.. Balfour has under
taken the mighty work of suppressing
200 branches of the league but he finds
when the details of his plans are put
into operation, the league simply eludes
the suppression. The native wit of the
Irishman is called into play, and
means unknown to the chief secretary
are found of continuing the Nationalist
meetings. When the league was pro-
claimed it was suggested that the
law might be evaded by the league as
similating with the Home Rule union or
the English Liberal league, and contin-
uing to work as nominal branches of
these societies, but the whole country is
now so thoroughly wrought up that any
evasion is secuted, and open defiance is
the order of the day. The Irish leaders
and people are determined to fight the
battle out solely under the banner of
the league, and refuse to avail them
selves of any subterfuge by which they
might escape the consequences which
the contempt of the law will imme-
diately bring upon them.
O'Brien, Mayor Timothy Sullivan, of
Dublin. and Mr.. Dillon, and this trio, in
conjunction with other Nationalist lead
orc have decided tO
SEEK NO TEMPORARY SHELTER
under the protection of outside asso-
ciates, however sympathetic, but to
manfully struggle to uphold the league
until the victory of which they
are confident comes to their re-
lief. That this struggle will be
a severe one is now plainly evident; the
events of the past week have convinced
the Irish leaders that the fight will be
bitter and hard, and even more so than
they had foreseen. There is not the
slightest trace of the government finch
ing in it's present endeayor. They have
found Mr.. Balfour a resolute minister
of England's coercion policy, On the
chance in the governments favor: Wig
orous, active and
ABSOLUTELY FEARLESS
of his personal safety. Moreover, they
find him ready to use the most extreme
measures in his power for their repreS-
sion. The Nationalist press has heaped
every epithet its extensive vocabulary
contains upon the Irish secretary, and
lately revels in the bestowal of the
euphonious title of ''b1oody Bal
four" and characterizes his policy as
worthy that of fiend incarnate. They
hold him up to eXecration, and, with
allusion to the fatal affray at Mitchels-
town, speak of him as 'dabbling his sleek
young hands in Erin's blood" They
stigmatize him as Jealous of bloodshed
as CROMWELL" and with burning words
depict him "butchering feeble peasants
in cold blood, with a languid sardonic
smile upon his cowardly, Eeffeminate
face" Much more in the same vein is
hurled at the devoted head of the min
lister by the press, and the Irish
leaders are warned what to pre-
pare for: that Balfour will strain
the coercion act to its utmost
in order to extinguish the hateful
league. "Unless," continue they, 'sud-
den death stops him in his career, or
the ministry became afraid to follow
him to such extremes as he will 60, he
will prove
THE MOST FORMIRABLE FOE
UldU GllG udtlOlldl CduS0 Has Il6I Will
since its resurgence." There is great
Indignation among the Liberal ranks in
England. The anti-coercion meetings
which were held IN London by the Lib
eral league were subjected to police in
trusion under government orders.
The police were ordered to be
present for the purpose of ascertaining
the object of the meetings. The Liberal
league is severely blamed for asserting
to this action by the government, and
they have determined to refuse infor-
nation concerning their meetings, and
to resist the entrance of the police to
their deliberations unless the latter are
armed with special warrant. This, if
granted, will be made the basis of legal
proceedings, and it is improbable that
Mr.. Matthews, the home secretary, will
assume the risk of an action which no
government can sustain.